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We’ve recently had an horrific
experience.Having recorded a few
great interviews using the excellent
Zoom H4 digital audio recorder,
gone to download them to the Mac
for processing, only to find that
some of them were zero length -
apparently completely inaccessible.
The sinking of the heart that occurs
and the sheer blind panic shouldn’t
be experienced by anyone,so we’re
going to pass on our experience to
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you in the hope that you don’t ever have to live through the
same. The Zoom H4 has always performed well for us. it produces
excellent quality stereo recordings with no hint of data lost.
We recently bought a number of items from a cheap online
electronics site, and to maximise the value we were going to get
from having to pay the deliverycharge, we trawled through the
site to identify any other bits and bobs that we might need.
One we hit on was more SD memory for the Zoom. We had a
couple of SanDisk 4Gb SD’s, but the Zoom didn’t acknowledge
them. We knew that 2Gb SD’s worked in the Zoom, so tacked it
onto the order. |
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First bad experience
First trip out for the new memory
was to record a live gig at
FreeQuay by Ergo Phizmiz and
James Nye.
On getting the recordings back, we
were amazed to see that they were
both of zero length, when they
should have been a couple of hours
long each.
Huge disappointment. The gig was a
live jam, so the recordings lost were
repeatable.
Being sensible, balanced-types we
thought we’d reformat the cheap
SD memory in the Zoom and carry
out a couple of test recordings.
These appeared to go well and were
listen-able. |
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